Netflix starts Scooby‑Doo: Origins filming

Netflix said April 24 that filming has started in Atlanta on Scooby-Doo: Origins, its live-action origin series about how Mystery Inc. first forms. (netflix.com) (deadline.com) The streamer also released a first-look image showing Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley and Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones. (netflix.com) (ign.com) Netflix’s official synopsis sets the story during the characters’ final summer at camp, when Shaggy and Daphne get pulled into a case involving a lost Great Dane puppy and a possible supernatural murder. (netflix.com) (deadline.com) Velma is described as a “pragmatic and scientific townie,” while Freddy is introduced as a “strange but ever-so-handsome new kid.” Paul Walter Hauser is also part of the cast in a role Netflix has not disclosed. (netflix.com 1) (netflix.com 2) The project has been in motion for more than a year. Variety reported in February that Grace had joined the series as Daphne after Netflix ordered eight episodes in March 2025. (variety.com) Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg are the showrunners, writers and executive producers. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner and Adrienne Erickson are also executive producers, and Toby Haynes is directing the premiere. (netflix.com) (deadline.com) The series marks Netflix’s first live-action Scooby-Doo show, and it returns the franchise to a younger version of the gang rather than the adult cast used in the 2002 and 2004 theatrical films. (upi.com) (variety.com) Scooby-Doo began in 1969 with Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears for Hanna-Barbera. Netflix’s new version keeps the core names but shifts the setup to camp, secrets and a first case before Mystery Inc. exists as a team. (deadline.com) (netflix.com) For now, Netflix has confirmed the title, the cast and the start of production, but it has not announced a release date. (netflix.com)